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AT the last rehearsal of "Joanna," Mr. Wild, the prompter, asked the author for an order to admit two friends to the boxes; and whether Mr. Cumberland was thinking of the probable proceeds of his play, or whether his anxiety otherwise bewildered him, cannot be ascertained; but he wrote, instead of the usual "two to the boxes" -- "admit _two pounds two_."

The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839

A friend of mine who had two (I think it was actually *two*) abortions in Air Force hospitals (despite the "pro-choice" insistence that making abortion illegal prevents safe abortions for those who need them) because of tubal pregnancies did NOT feel guilty over having them.

Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child. Ann Althouse 2009

Thus Albert is quick to point out that Avicebron in the Fons vitae is “the only [philosopher] who says that from one simple principle two [things] must immediately proceed in the order of nature, since the number ˜two™ follows upon unity.”

Binarium Famosissimum Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

The virtue of this conception is that it explains how two or more people can be said to be thinking of the same abstract object, such as the number ˜two,™ and how various properties, such as the Pythagorean Theorem, can be said to follow logically from the idea of a right triangle.

Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008

We have two performances a year and right now we are smack dab in the middle of our BIG show..two nights long... we had our first performance last night and are gearing up for tonight...

Of Tights and Tutus Holly 2008

I've said that if your play is longer than two hours, maybe you should figure out exactly what you're saying and maybe write * two* plays.

wake up! 2006

  But they had a new two engine,  two man craft capable of staying aloft from dawn to dusk.

Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005

Of the 22 stories gathered here, two are new; three first appeared in _EQMM, _six in _AHMM, _two in _Analog, _seven in other mystery or SF magazines, and two in original anthologies.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Of the 22 stories gathered here, two are new; three first appeared in _EQMM, _six in _AHMM, _two in _Analog, _seven in other mystery or SF magazines, and two in original anthologies.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Yet instead of sensibly contrasting two irreconcilable ends of a half-century, half a world apart, Mr. Spender laments of the poets surviving Vietnam (as opposed to the survivors of Verdun) that only "one or two… is an exception in having ambitions which derive from an idea of poetry based on past examples… which exercise claims on the future."

Cultural Barbarians? Barry, Jan 1973